squiggly said:

I am wondering if anyone extracting industrially has considered using chromatography to separate out the components of the oil. My previous legal question involved whether or not it is legal to run a reaction on the oil to precipitate out the desired products. After some research it turns out this in fact is very illegal in all 50 states.

Chromatography, however, is very different and represents not only a very effective way of obtaining pure products--but also a cheap and reliable way. This is a bit more sciency, and the process would require a fair amount of tweaking to get right--but ultimately this is a non-reactive pathway for separating mixtures. The principles involved are the same which allow you to extract the material in the first place so i can't imagine it not being legal. But I'm wondering still as I can't fathom that I've been the first person to think of this

This process would allow for 99% purity and would also give access to pure canabidiol extracts (the chemical which is rumored to have anti-cancer properties in mj). It is also the industry standard for separating mixtures. This exactly how phizer or abbott labs would do it.

If this is legal I'd strongly recommend you guys try it. I'm, as always, available for questions if anyone is more interested.

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